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CURATORSHIP, offices, contracts, in the civil law (law) and Hialeah (sh)


CURATORSHIP, offices, contracts, in the civil law (law)


CURATORSHIP, offices, contracts, in the civil law. The power given by authority of law, to one or more persons, to administer the property of an authority of law, to one or more persons, to administer the property of an individual who is unable to take care of his own estate and affairs, either individual who is unable to take care of his own estate and affairs, either on account of his absence without an authorized agent, or in consequence of on account of his absence without an authorized agent, or in consequence of his prodigality, or want of mind. Poth. Tr. des Personnes, t. 6, s. 5. As to his prodigality, or want of mind. Poth. Tr. des Personnes, t. 6, s. 5. As to the laws of Louisiana, which authorize a curatorship, vide Civ. Code, Art. the laws of Louisiana, which authorize a curatorship, vide Civ. Code, Art. 31, 50, et seq. 357, et seq.; 382, 1105, et seq. 31, 50, et seq. 357, et seq.; 382, 1105, et seq. 2. Curatorship differs from tutorship, (q.v.) in this, that the latter 2. Curatorship differs from tutorship, (q.v.) in this, that the latter is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, is instituted for the protection of property in the first place, and, secondly, of the person; while the former is intended to protect, first, secondly, of the person; while the former is intended to protect, first, the person, and, secondly, the property. 1 Lecons Elem. du Droit Civ. Rom. the person, and, secondly, the property. 1 Lecons Elem. du Droit Civ. Rom. 241. 241.

Hialeah (sh)




City (pop., 2000: 226,419), southeastern Florida, U.S. Settled in 1910 by the aviation pioneers James Bright and Glenn H. Curtiss, the town took its name from a Seminole Indian word meaning "pretty prairie.

" The city serves mainly as a residential suburb of Miami. It is the site of the horse-racing track Hialeah Park (1925).